CONVENIENCEis an exhibition fronting as a quasi-convenience store. Featuring the work of Heidi Cho, Meera Sethi, Manny Trinh, Michael Veneracion, Xiaojing Yan, and Shellie Zhang, it explores the processes of diasporic place-making that take root within spaces stereotypically associated with Asian immigrants.

Treating the Asian mom-and-pop shop as a point of departure, the exhibition extends the notion of ‘convenience’ beyond built commercial environments. It explores how ‘convenience’ is used to characterize immigrant life: especially in relation to broader notions of proximity, passivity, and efficiency. With an intention to challenge easy categories of social, racial, and economic difference, the exhibition re-conceptualizes the site of the convenience store into a place of creative memory and possibility.

CONVENIENCE is presented as a part of the 2018 Myseum Intersections Festival ​(Arrivals + Departures), in partnership with 187 Augusta and Project 40 Collective.

The curators and partners of this exhibition are committed to accessible programming. All programs are FREE and open to the public unless otherwise noted. 187 Augusta will also be wheelchair-friendly by the time of the event, and the space is LGBTQIA2S friendly. Should visitors require any further accommodations, please contact bkwanart@gmail.com.